What We're Reading: 15 Favorite Data Science Resources

After learning so much from Kaggle's collaborative community over the past eight months since I first joined, I wanted to share some of my favorite data science resources including suggestions from my fellow Kagglers.

Like many others who have a seemingly endless queue of languages and techniques we hope to learn, I had tried MOOCs like Udacity and coding platforms like HackerRank. Right before joining Kaggle earlier this year, I was working through Andrew Ng’s famed machine learning Coursera. Following the blogs, newsletters, and podcasts I'm sharing here is another way I try to stay (or become) savvy about topics in machine learning, data visualization, and industry trends.

This list is far from exhaustive, so if you have any favs that are tragically missing, please add them to the comments!

The experts

I especially love reading smart people’s fantastic personal blogs about machine learning and data science so I'll kick off this list of resources with a handful I particularly enjoy. They're often uniquely reflective of their own specialized interests or particular industry experiences which always imparts new knowledge or perspectives on a subject. If you're a clever person with a blog of your own, please do share in the comments!

Currently a research scientist at Open AI, Andrej received his PhD in computer vision at Stanford during which he completed two internships at Google working on large-scale deep learning for videos. He’s very active on Twitter and Ben Hamner recommends you follow his feed as it alone makes a fantastic resource for those following the latest in machine learning and topics in deep learning. Since you’re here, you may also be interested in his Arxiv Sanity Preserver.

Hal Daumé, an associate professor in computer science and language science at the University of Maryland, shares his self-described “biased thoughts” on natural language processing, computational linguistcs, and related machine learning topics. He also featured as a t-sne expert on this episode of the podcast Talking Machines.

A veteran writer on artificial intelligence, Jack Clark is soon to be the strategy and communication director at OpenAI (whose own blog is worth a follow). And with that is good reason to follow his blog, Mapping Babel. Here you'll also find posts from his newsletter about artificial intelligence, Import AI.

For the statistics-inclined among us, Andrew Gelman's blog is an absolute must follow and comes highly recommended by Jamie Hall, a data scientist on our team. Expect a post per day (or more) from this prolific writer on topics ranging from Bayesian statistics and Stan to reviews (often thoroughly explained critiques) of "stats" in the wild.

As the title states, this blog run by Kaggler Zygmunt Zając covers interesting topics in machine learning in an easy to understand manner. He claims to do so while being entertaining--you’ll have to judge for yourself! A great place to start may be Fast ML’s most popular posts (as of May 2015), but here are a couple of recent entries:

This one is not exactly learning data science (what IS data science, anyway?), but wherever reading recommendations are solicited by data nerds, FlowingData is soon mentioned. In addition to becoming a member which will give you access to Nathan Yau’s stellar data visualization tutorials, he regularly shares resources and cool features which will delight any data enthusiast.

Like the many hats a data scientist wears, Renee Teate’s educational website contains a compendium of resources including a blog, podcast, and a community forum with activities tailored to learning data science through doing (the best way!). Inspired by her own journey from SQL data analyst to full-fledged data scientist, Renee's blog is not to be missed.

Newsletters

Data Machina was an absolute goldmine for me when I discovered it. You will easily get sucked into perusing the dense archive as you wait impatiently for the next weekly newsletter to arrive in your inbox. Here are a few recently featured pieces from the archives to whet your appetite:

This is another newsletter that comes highly recommended by Kaggle staff. When I first asked Anthony how I could prepare for my new role on the marketing team, he said “subscribe to Data Elixir”, and I've been a reader ever since. Data Elixir, "free for data lovers", features inspirational and thought-starting content I trust you’ll enjoy much as I have over the past 6 months.

While I have your attention, I’ll remind you that you can sign up to receive updates in your inbox whenever a new post drops on No Free Hunch! Never miss the latest winning approach or words of wisdom from the data science experts we interview. You can subscribe right here on our page (I'll spare you the starter links!).

Podcasts

What to relax to while you wait for your winning competition solutions to finish running? Well, here are a few suggestions for your listening pleasure.

Our very own Anthony Goldbloom recommended this podcast to me so you know it’s good. Hosted by Katherine Goldman and Ryan Adams, Talking Machines offers clear conversations with experts in the field, insightful discussions of industry news, and useful answers to listener questions.

A long-time favorite of mine, Data Stories, hosted by Enrico Bertini and Moritz Stefaner, focuses on data visualization through lively interviews with experts like Amanda Cox of The New York Times and Hadley Wickham of the tidyverse.

The staples

If these aren’t already in your regular rotation, well, add them post-haste! These sites aggregate all of the best data science and technology news, blogs, tutorials and more from around the web so you don't have to.

First, thank you to all who offered your suggestions which inspired me to curate this list. I hope you find at least some of these blogs, newsletters, podcasts, and news aggregators helpful! Again, if you have any additions you'd like to share, please post them in the comments section.

Are there any good C++ references? I have been pretty deep into Python and R and am trying to branch out this year.

Love the list!

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